Conventions of the Form

I found two good examples of the form I want to make for my piece. I looked at two different zines and picked out the conventions of this form that I found within them.

After briefly studying zines, I decided to change my chosen form to something more accessible to me. I chose digipacks/album cover.

Mumford & Sons - Babel Digipack

• front cover contains album name and band name
• images of the band themselves
• colour scheme stuck to, in this case creams, browns and bold red
• theme, in this case carnivals, consistent throughout, fit with the style of the musical content on the album
• song list on the back of the digipack
• band logo included
• institutional information on the back
• very few words used in the design, other than the song titles, album title and band name
• lots of photography used, mainly without the band included, only in one photo, style of the photography sticking to the theme
• band name and album name central on the cover
• band sit centrally in the cover photo
• very small number of fonts used, in this case 3
• decorative font used for song titles on back

Florence + the Machine - Ceremonials Digipack

• front cover contains album name and band name
• image of the lead singer included
• colour scheme stuck to, in this case black, red and gold
• theme, in this case elegant, church-like, consistent throughout, fit with the style of the music on the album
• song list on the back of the digipack
• institutional information on the back
• very few words used in the design, other than song titles, album title and band name
• lots of photography used, mainly with the lead singer Florence included, posed, dressed and well lit photography, style of photography sticking to the theme
• band name and album central on the cover
• lead singer appears on the cover with 'reflections', 3 copies of her central on the cover
• very small number of fonts used, in this case 3
• very simple, minimal fonts used to draw more attention to the photography of Florence